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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction Consumption as Performance:The Emergence of the Consumer in the Romantic Period
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Constructions, Simulations, Cultures
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Waiter, There’s a Trope in My Soup: Close Readings
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Disgust, Digestion, Thought
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"Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite is an important book that compellingly shows how high theory and cultural studies can be on the same menu. In doing so, Cultures of Taste persuasively demonstrates that any serious consideration of our social life must engage with Romanticism in all its historical, textual, and philosophical dimensions. This work is an impressive collection of writings that inaugurates the new field of diet studies in a wonderful manner." - Orrin N. C. Wang, University of Maryland, College Park
"What kind of object is food, and what kind of engagement with the world is eating? The essays in Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite take up such unlikely questions with a remarkable combination of historical specificity and theoretical inventiveness. Via juxtapositions - be it dining with Kant or reading fish n' chips - that continually reveal unexpected points of intersection among a wide range of critical perspectives, they demonstrate the extent to which Romantic culture organizes and is organized by an economics, a logic, and a metaphorics of consumption. Together with Timothy Morton's fine introduction and afterword, they argue collectively for an empiricist criticism that would be open to historical experience precisely to the extent that it is conceptually experimental." - Joshua Wilner, City College and The Graduate Center-CUNY
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism
Editors: Timothy Morton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981394
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Timothy Morton 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29304-8Published: 28 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8139-4Published: 16 January 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature